On Sunday, CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources” rang in 2022 with some New Year resolutions for the media (I guess that makes them News Year resolutions) at the end of the show. But there was only one resolution they wanted to stick to and it was to gaslight their audiences by making everything into a threat to democracy.
In the final minutes of the first episode of 2022, host and media apologist Brian Stelter was joined by partisan author and CNN columnist Nicole Hemmer to review “some New Year's resolutions for the news media.”
“Let’s figure out what the press should be doing in the next 12 months,” Stelter prefaced. “Do you have a resolution for us, Nicole?”
According to Hemmer, “the big one” was for them to “have a long memory” and keep in mind that “the destruction of democracy is not a 2020 story, not a 2021 story. It's going to be with us into 2022.”
Adding: “It’s going to be less splashy, it’s going to be in statehouses, and the Supreme Court, and in Congress. It's not going necessarily come dressed up as an insurrection. So, keeping an eye on the story even when it's not, you know, those gripping images that we've had for the past two years.”
What she’s saying is that everything the left and media don’t like taking place anywhere in the country and for whatever reason should be portrayed as a threat to the country.
That means voting integrity legislation, even if it’s just rolling back pandemic protocols, are a threat to democracy. The Supreme Court looking at protecting the right to life: a threat to democracy. The court looking at protecting the Second Amendment from New York State: a threat to democracy.
Of course, Stelter agreed with his extremely leftist guest:
STELTER: Right! It is one of these drip, drip, drip events or stories that are hard to cover. But hey, that’s an important challenge for the media.
HEMMER: Absolutely.
Earlier in the show, she flashed that deeply partisan desire by chiding the entirety of right for refusing to be tarred and feathered with terrible events of January 6 perpetrated by a few compared to the whole.
“So, the denialism is very much rooted in kind of a desire not to be pinned with something that was so horrific,” she whined. “There were people who were responsible for this and Trump supporters and people within the administration. And so, the need to distance yourself from responsibility for that crime, for that sin against the country, for that terrorism is a big driver.”
Will a public rejection of President Biden and the left’s political agenda, incompetency, fearmongering, and overreach possibly electing a Republican majority in the House in the mid-terms be viewed as the threat to democracy? Likely.
This threat to slap everything with a dishonest label was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Amazon and Vicks. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
CNN’s Reliable Sources
January 2, 2022
11:59:06 a.m. EasternBRIAN STELTER: All right. Last but not least this hour, some New Year's resolutions for the news media. Nicole Hemmer is back with me, author of Messengers of the Right. Let’s figure out what the press should be doing in the next 12 months. Do you have a resolution for us, Nicole?
NICOLE HEMMER: I do. The big one is to have a long memory. The destruction of democracy is not a 2020 story, not a 2021 story. It's going to be with us into 2022. It’s going to be less splashy, it’s going to be in statehouses, and the Supreme Court, and in Congress. It's not going necessarily come dressed up as an insurrection. So, keeping an eye on the story even when it's not, you know, those gripping images that we've had for the past two years.
STELTER: Right! It is one of these drip, drip, drip events or stories that are hard to cover. But hey, that’s an important challenge for the media.
HEMMER: Absolutely.
STELTER: Right. Nicole, thanks so much.
HEMMER: Thanks so much for having me.
STELTER: And thanks for joining us for this New Year edition of Reliable Sources.
